Florida is applying a religious test for judges

[lazarus]

Jeb Bush has been given the right to directly appoint every member of every Judicial Nomination Committee. And here's what's happening.

Theocracy's a-comin', folks.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1073667920028

Will you be able to balance your duties as a single mother of twins with your duties as a Broward judge?"

That was the question Broward County Assistant Public Defender Jayme Cassidy says she was asked by a member of the 15th Judicial Circuit Judicial Nomination Commission during her two judicial screening interviews in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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But several applicants interviewed by the Daily Business Review complained that JNC members have asked them:

- Whether they are active in their church.

- Whether the candidate is a "God-fearing person."

- How they feel about the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 ruling striking down a Texas law criminalizing homosexual activity.

- How they would feel about having the Ten Commandments posted in their courtroom.

[davidinalameda]

1. aren't these questions illegal to ask?

:shrug:

or am I being exceedingly naive here

[lazarus]

2. Only if you

care about little things like the US Constitution, which the Bush boys have shown they simply don't.

[Cannikin]

3. The words....

The First Amendment
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...”

Article VI, Section 3
“...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

http://religion.aynrand.org/